May 2, 2009

Thought that you might like to see a picture of my dog Loki smelling the flowers - and a close up of him with his mud colored face!

Our asparagus is yielding well enough this year that we're eating it daily, soon I'll have to start thinking about freezing some. It's SO much better fresh though! And the garlic is growing like crazy too. I don't know what I'll do with it all if it yields as well as last year. Last years crop kept during the winter quite well, and we're still eating it.

I cut my first batch of rhubarb last week and made a pretty good coffee cake. Hopefully I'll have enough time to day to cut some more and make a couple of pies.



We've had some wild changes in temperatures in the past week. On Monday and Tuesday the temperatures were in the 90's, but today the temperature is only supposed to reach a high of about 60 degrees. The warm temps. really encouraged the blossoms to appear on the fruit trees. Our plum and cherry trees are now in full bloom.